Treaties must be “honoured and enforced”
Ovide Mercredi, the former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, is speaking at the Ontario Bar Association’s annual OBA Institute event.
Mercredi, a Cree from Manitoba, played a key role in both the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord constitutional discussions, as well as the helping to resolve the 1990 Oka crisis in Quebec.
Mercredi will speak Feb. 7 at 4 pm on why treaties must be both “honoured and enforced” at the OBA’s Aborginal Law section program. His talk promises to be both thought-provoking, and newsworthy.
OBA Institute, an annual continuing professional development conference for lawyers, features 310 speakers and 24 exhibitors. It happens Feb. 6-7 at Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle Convention Centre and Feb. 8 at the OBA’s convention centre at 20 Toronto Street.
Details on the Aboriginal Law section program, including the speech by Ovide Mercredi, can be found at:
Details and information on how to register can be found at oba.org/Institute2014